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Well, we bore that too, but not everybody did. They gathered there [to Mauthausen] all the heftlings [prisoners], they undermined the concentration camp, it was supposed to explode on the 7thof May [1945].
They wanted to explode us, because they realized they were going to loose the war, and they didn’t want it to become known what they did, the way they tortured people. The mines had to be placed by Jewish boys.
We had luck that the Americans came in on the 4thof May, and they destroyed the mines.
They wanted to explode us, because they realized they were going to loose the war, and they didn’t want it to become known what they did, the way they tortured people. The mines had to be placed by Jewish boys.
We had luck that the Americans came in on the 4thof May, and they destroyed the mines.
Period
Year
1945
Location
Mauthausen
Austria
Interview
Golda Salamon